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DD2480 Software Engineering Fundamentals 7.5 credits

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This course goal is to enable students to become a successful participant in an industrial or open source software project.

Information per course offering

Termin

Information for Spring 2026 se26 programme students

Course location

KTH Campus

Duration
13 Jan 2026 - 13 Mar 2026
Periods

Spring 2026: P3 (7.5 hp)

Pace of study

50%

Application code

60260

Form of study

Normal Daytime

Language of instruction

English

Course memo
Course memo is not published
Number of places

Places are not limited

Target group
Students from year 3 and students at master's programmes as long as it can be included in your programme.
Planned modular schedule
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Contact

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Course syllabus as PDF

Please note: all information from the Course syllabus is available on this page in an accessible format.

Course syllabus DD2480 (Spring 2026–)
Headings with content from the Course syllabus DD2480 (Spring 2026–) are denoted with an asterisk ( )

Content and learning outcomes

Course contents

Requirements engineering..

Revision control, continuous integration, the life cycle for software.

Design patterns, components.

Testing and debugging.

Software maintenance, configuration management, refactoring.

Quality assurance Estimation and measurement of performance and code complexity, scalability.

Intended learning outcomes

After completion of the course, students should be able to:

  •  apply version control in a software development project
  •  systematically test and debug programs
  • evaluate and apply software development methods and tools
  •  explain and use patterns for software design and implementation
  • use quality assurance techniques and assess their results

in order to

  •  successfully participate in industrial software development projects and open source projects.

Literature and preparations

Specific prerequisites

knowledge and skills in object oriented programming, 6 credits equivalent to completed course DD1310-DD1319/DD1321/DD1331/DD1333/DD1337/DD100N/ID1018/ID1022.

Knowledge in Algorithms, Data Structures and basic Software Engineering, 6 credits, equivalent to completed course DD1338/DD1320-DD1328/DD2325/ID1020/ID1021.

Recommended prerequisites

Object oriented programming, algorithms and datastructures corresponding to one of the courses DD1320, DD1321, DD1325, DD1327, DD1338, DD1339, DD1340, DD1341, DD1346 or ID1020.

Literature

You can find information about course literature either in the course memo for the course offering or in the course room in Canvas.

Examination and completion

Grading scale

A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Examination

  • ÖVN1 - Exercises, 7.5 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

Other requirements for final grade

Passed laboratory assignments.

Examiner

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Ethical approach

  • All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
  • In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
  • In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.

Further information

Course room in Canvas

Registered students find further information about the implementation of the course in the course room in Canvas. A link to the course room can be found under the tab Studies in the Personal menu at the start of the course.

Offered by

EECS/Computer Science

Main field of study

Computer Science and Engineering

Education cycle

Second cycle

Supplementary information

Grading criteria will be announced at the start of the course.

This course is based on group projects; students have to participate locally.

In this course, the EECS code of honor applies, see:
http://www.kth.se/en/eecs/utbildning/hederskodex

Additional regulations

This course contains group projects and labs. Course registration after the official registration period is not possible, since we need to create the groups in the beginning of the course.